DBMS > Kingbase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	3.31
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#185	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

vitess.io

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

vitess.io/docs

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1999

1992

2013

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

17, July 2015

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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